Exchangeable heel



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EXCHANGEABLB HEEL Filed Nov. 4, 1938 .3-" a ww Patented Nov. 12, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE A EXCHANGEABLE HEEL Pawel Niedworok, Katowice, Silesia, Poland Application November 4, 1938, Serial No. 238,903 In Poland November 9, 1937 1 Claim. (CI; 36-36) The present invention is directed to an ex- Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the shoe heel changeable heel of a shoe, which can be easily showing the recess for receiving the plate. exchanged by the person wearing the shoe and The regular heel a is provided with a. cutting does not change the height of the regular heel. or recess b, limited partially by a wall 0. In this For this purpose I provide the regular heel cutting I push the plate (1, having holes I for with a cutting for an exchangeable plate, having plugs e of the heel a. After wearing of the rear holes for plugs fixed to the heel. The plate is rim of the plate may be turned so that the rim put upon the plugs, so that it comes into contact touching the wall is arranged adjacent the rim with the back-wall of the cutting. The height of h of the heel. The shoulders or projections k the plate corresponds to the height of the cutextend into cuttings or grooves i and avoid the ting, so that the upper surface of the plate is on displacing of the plate d. 10

a level with the upper surface of the heel. I can I claim use a plate of aluminium, leather, synthetic resin, In a shoe heel having a circular shaped rear gum or the like. edge and a recess extending forwardly from the I have found that it is not necessary to provide rear edge terminating in a circular shaped wall holes and plugs if the upper surface of the cutting corresponding to the curvature of the rear edge 15 and the corresponding lower surface of the plate of the heel, a pair of projections arranged. diaare provided with layers of an adhesive submetrically opposite each other at the rear ends stance. After drying of the named layers the of said wall, two pins carried by the heel projectplate can be pushed into the cutting and pressed ing from the surface thereof and circumferenagainst the heel. In such a way I obtain a bindtially spaced with respect to said projections and 20 ing, which avoids an unintentional loosening of arranged diametrically opposite each other, a the plate. substantially circular shaped plate having two If the front rim of the plate is worn, the same holes extending therethrough for receiving said can be taken off and turned so that the rim not pins and lateral grooves extending along the worn and touching the back-wall of the cutting thickness of the plate for receiving said projec- 25 is used as the front rim. tions whereby the plate may be mounted in two In the accompanying drawing I have shown one positions in the recess and two inverted positions form of the new heel. in the recess.

In the drawing: Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the plate. PAWEL NIEFDWOROK. 

